CVE-2008-4916 Denial of service in n/a
Guest OS users can crash the host operating system via a vulnerability in a virtual device driver, affecting multiple VMware products.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2008-4916?
CVE-2008-4916 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 6 Apr 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Unspecified vulnerability in a guest virtual device driver in VMware Workstation before 5.5.9 build 126128, and 6.5.1 and earlier 6.x versions; VMware Player before 1.0.9 build 126128, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware ACE before 1.0.8 build 125922, and 2.5.1 and earlier 2.x versions; VMware Server 1.x before 1.0.8 build 126538 and 2.0.x before 2.0.1 build 156745; VMware Fusion before 2.0.1; VMware ESXi 3.5; and VMware ESX 3.0.2, 3.0.3, and 3.5 allows guest OS users to cause a denial of service (host OS crash) via unknown vectors.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4916?
It affects 7 products.
Products include Emc Vmware Player, Vmware Vmware Ace, Vmware Vmware Esx, Vmware Vmware Esxi, Vmware Vmware Player, Vmware Vmware Server and 1 more.
How do I fix CVE-2008-4916?
No fix has been published for CVE-2008-4916 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2008-4916 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4916 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-m34f-92c4-4h99.